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Ignition, anything related to the 480-volt electrical system, which is one of the two systems in the plant. and it was not set off by anhydrous ammonia, ammonium nitrate, someone smoking or related to the weather but officials have not ruled out the following causes. they say it is possible as yet that something went wrong with the other electrical system in the plant which was a 120-volt system and it is possible, they have not ruled out that part of the problem was a golf cart that was stored in the seed room at the plant. officials say golf cart batteries have a history of causing explosion...

Chris -- trace gallagher is on it. >> the day before the game the department of energy was praising the superdome for having those energy efficient lights in there saying it was a touch down for energy efficiency. no, sir not a big as store now. static boom in the speakers after halftime and then as you see there the lights went out and stayed out for 34 minutes. most of the fans pretty much took it in stride but there were some to clearly thought that maybe something more nefarious was going on. now, entergy power company in new orleans says there was a power surge in the system. more precise...

Soon. they don't know what caused two batteries to overheat, leading to a fire and emergency landing and the grounding of the fleet of 50 dreamliners in service. they're looking at the battery charger and the electrical system, and so far there's been no smoking gun. >> this is not something we're expecting will be solved overnight. there's a lot of technical work and a lot of complex work to understand. >> i also got word from a source inside boeing that the ntsb is looking at another fire in tucson in 2006 that happened on a plane -- it was during a test when the lithium ion battery exploded...

Methanol out of natural gas. we could ramp that up. we've had capacity in the past. we've dismantled that capacity. we could add that to the biofuels mix. we need an open fuel standard. we need engines that can adapt to the multiple kinds of fuels. >> john, how long would that take? in terms of millions of barrels a day that would be the equivalent of? >> i think if he look over a three to five year period, that's another -- 1 million to 2 million barrels a day. up to 4 million, 5 million barrels a day in three to five years. in addition to that, we are making progress on higher miles per gall...

But what we also need to do is address the electrical system. this is not just about transportation. >> let me stop you. you transitioned from production to efficiency. we're still within the one to ten year timeframe you're talking about? >> that's correct. we have a dying, aging electrical infrastructure that has to be addressed as well. >> does that improve efficiency in terms of the transmission system and therefore we need to produce a little less? >> yes. it does. and along with that are all kinds of domestic and commercial changes that can be made so that consumers use less electricity ...